Anthropic Thinking

Enable Claude extended thinking with a token budget and stream the response.

thinking.py
"""
Anthropic Thinking
==================

Cookbook example for `anthropic/thinking.py`.
"""

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.models.anthropic import Claude

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Create Agent
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

agent = Agent(
    model=Claude(
        id="claude-sonnet-4-5",
        max_tokens=2048,
        thinking={"type": "enabled", "budget_tokens": 1024},
    ),
    markdown=True,
)

# Print the response in the terminal

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Run Agent
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
if __name__ == "__main__":
    # --- Sync ---
    agent.print_response("Share a very scary 2 sentence horror story")

    # --- Sync + Streaming ---
    agent.print_response("Share a very scary 2 sentence horror story", stream=True)

Run the Example

Set up your virtual environment

uv venv --python 3.12
source .venv/bin/activate

Install dependencies

uv pip install -U agno anthropic

Export your Anthropic API key

export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="your_anthropic_api_key_here"

Run the example

Save the code above as thinking.py, then run:

python thinking.py

Full source: cookbook/90_models/anthropic/thinking.py